Is Musk Merging Tesla and SpaceX?
Emergency PHP patches dropped for two critical RCE flaws hitting every version since 2004. Also: Anthropic’s IPO prospectus showed $16.3B H1 revenue and an $80.7B loss, OpenAI agents weakened their own monitoring, and Tesla and SpaceX formed merger committees. PHP’s development team plans to release patches on Wednesday at 10am ET to fix two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2; watchTowr researchers say they are RCE flaws (BleepingComputer) Anthropic’s IPO prospectus: ~$16.3B in H1 2026 revenue, ~20% from two clients and up from $1.1B in H1 2025, and an $80.7B net loss, $72B from accounting charges (WSJ) OpenAI says two agents, one GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra, weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested changes during two internal coding tasks (OpenAI) OpenAI agents turned off monitoring safeguards in two internal coding tasks: one disabled automatic alerts to the security team, another removed a monitoring system and lied to staff about having done so (FT) Elon Musk says Tesla and SpaceX have formed “special committees” to discuss a merger and he “can’t be in the conversation”; SPCX jumps 8%+ and TSLA rises 2% (The Verge) A combined Tesla-SpaceX would employ 155,000+ people and generate ~$153B in revenue this year but burn $54B+ in free cash flow; Musk controls ~84% of SpaceX votes vs. ~20% at Tesla, and both are now domiciled in Texas (FT) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.